[Aussie Dasher]

I suppose it was worth a try...

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Senator Paul?

[Clara Lou]

I am SO shocked to read this. Astroturfing for Paul. Just amazing.

[Malsua]

The clip had been viewed nearly 60,000 times since it was uploaded yesterday.

It's hard to believe those kinds of numbers in the first 24 hours. After a day or two, no biggie. Immediately after an upload is suspicious.

[Bahbah]

Texan Republican Senator Ron Paul

Senator?

[drpix]

[wideawake]

In other news, scientists have learned that all water contains a property they are calling “wetness.”

[dawn53]

Don De Bots

"De Bots" is probably what are causing all the hits (end/sarcasm.) Seriously though, they could be using a click farm or bots to generate lots of hits.

[saganite]

A promotion!!! Senator Paul, kinda has a ring to it.

The obvious mistake in this article repeated several times doesn’t lend a lot of credibility to the writer.

[Brilliant]

I do think it is a grass roots movement. It’s just a very small grass roots movement.

[drpix]

To make up for the mistake in original article’s headline (”Senator”) would adding “(Ron Paul)” at the end of the thread title be the right fix?

[George W. Bush]

It is certainly possible to spambot YouTube to drive numbers up.

If that is happening, it’s very unlikely that it is the campaign doing it. More likely, some script kiddie with a deep bandwidth connection like at a university.

However, Ron Paul does have something like 55,000 Meetup members now, located in 24 countries. So some of the traffic might very well be an indication of international enthusiasm for his message. Many of the European and Brit young people really do like RP’s liberty and small-government message. They don’t like a nanny-state future and they recognize the problems with socialist government solutions.

I don’t find the article especially credible when they couldn’t even be bothered to verify that RP is a congressman, not a senator. And those interviews with the “expert”, well, he’s some nobody and they had a strange way of collating his responses. Funny he never bothered to mention to them that RP is a congressman.

[Vanbasten]

Does not surprise me a bit.

[mnehring]

Considering how many staff members are on RonPaulForums.com and how they have created fake forums for other candidates (FredForums.com, etc) I wouldn’t be surprised.

[kevkrom]

Aside from the factual errors (e.g., Senator Paul), the article is remarkably content free. Sure, many of us suspect astroturfing is going on, but despite the headline, all the article manages to say is that it kind of looks like it could be astroturfing.

Not worth the time to read it.

[mnehring]

Everyone,
It seems that this may be a scam article started by Paul supporters (to make it look like it was started by Thompson supporters.)

http://fredthompsonforum.com/showthread.php?p=15046

FredThompsonForums was created by Paultards to mock his campaign (as have several other similar competitor sites.) They are saying that they created the fake story. They are attempting to make it look like this was a fake story floated by the Thompson campaign to those who don’t realize that FredThompsonForums is actually a Ron Paul campaign creation.

[SJackson]

Fake, Emporer Paul, can’t be anything fake about Ron Paul and his supporters, can there?

[Badeye]

We’ll know for sure when the first couple of primaries take place.

He’ll either get the votes indicated in the online polls, or he’ll be the 2008 version of Howard Dean.

I strongly suspect the latter.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

You-gotta-come-see-this-right-now PING!!! ;)

[MEGoody]

Professor De Bots said that for a relatively unknown candidate like Senator Paul to have so much prominence online was suspicious.

Gee, ya think?

[lormand]

I hate making prediction, especially political ones, but being a Texan, I can accurately predict that Prawn Paul would never be elected a US Senator of our great State of Texas.